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Condition: Very Good. Hardcover Very Good Offered by the UK charity Langdon foundation - supporting young men and women with disabilities Signed by author.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED and inscribed in Hebrew by Jehuda Reinharz to Professor Arnold J. Band and his wife Ora. ; Tight, clean and crisp. A gently read book in excellent condition. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. ; Arnold Band is professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature at UCLA, and founder (in 1969) of the UCLA Comparative Literature Program. ; 9 X 5.90 X 1.50 inches; 592 pages; Signed by Author.

Condition: VG. NY 1944 first edition. Dial. Hardcover octavo. 340pp. ***Inscribed ( To Robert Szold, well-known Zionist lawyer) and signed by Weisgal on front end paper in 1944. near VG, boards toned; binding secure; hinges not cracked; text clean, no DJ.

First edition. SIGNED. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 323 pages illustrations 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Brodetsky, Selig 1888-1954. Weizmann, Chaim 1874-1952. Sokolow, Nahum 1859-1936. Jewish scientists; Biography. Mathematicians Israel Biography. Zionism England History. Israel History. Whitechapel (London, England). Genre: Biographies. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

First edition. SIGNED. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 323 pages illustrations 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Brodetsky, Selig 1888-1954. Weizmann, Chaim 1874-1952. Sokolow, Nahum 1859-1936. Jewish scientists; Biography. Mathematicians Israel Biography. Zionism England History. Israel History. Whitechapel (London, England). Genre: Biographies. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Voice of Israel is a collection of Abba Eban s speeches before the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly, at universities and other venues between 1948 and 1968. Eban addresses Israel s position on security in the Middle East, the Arab refugee problem, Jerusalem and the Holy Places, freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal and the Straights of Tiran, border clashes, American-Israel relations and the Six-Day War. The Ambassador sounds a note of fierce and joyous pride in the achievements of Israel. The texts show Mr. Eban s equal facility with the majestic phrase, the mild word and the blunt rejoinder. It need not be insisted that Mr. Eban is the oratorical equal of the incomparable Sir Winston [Churchill]. Hal Lehrman, The New York Times For almost two generations, Abba Eban was Israel's voice its messenger to the high and mighty among the nations as well as to the Jewish people all over the world. Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940 s during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and conviction. With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II. As Ambassador to the United States and the UN, and later as Foreign Minister, he represented an Israel with which the world's liberal imagination could identify. Larger and more powerful nations were envious of so powerful a spokesman, and his speeches became textbook models for statesmen and diplomats in distant lands. His books which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy were a unique combination of enormous erudition and crystalline clarity. His scholarly training and rhetorical gifts supplemented each other in a rare fashion. Rarely has a small country been represented by a statesman of such world stature: only Thomas Masaryk and Jan Smuts come to mind to compare with him. He was a true patriot, in the old-fashioned sense of the word: proud of his people, but never ethno-centric; a man of the world, but deeply embedded in Jewish cultural heritage; focused on the plights and tribulations of the Jewish people, but never losing the universal horizon of mankind. In short, he was a modern Jew in the best sense of the word. Shlomo Avineri Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Reprint edition. A revised edition of a chronicle of Israel in the two decades since its establishment. Signed "Abba Eban" in blue ink (signature only) on the FFEP. NF cond. Black cloth boards with gold foil lettering on the spine & cover. DJ has small chip and tear on upper right. A near fine copy with a prominent signature. Includes dust jacket with price intact: $6.95 in archival cover. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First edition. First printing [stated]. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xxvii, [3]527 p. Illustrations. Annals of Communism. Audience: General/trade. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. From Wikipedia: "The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC, was formed on Joseph Stalin's order in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities. It was designed to influence international public opinion and organize political and material support for the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany, particularly from the West. In 1952, as part of the persecution of Jews in the latter part of Stalin's rule (for example, the "Doctors' plot"), most prominent members of the JAC were arrested on trumped-up spying charges, tortured, and executed by firing squad after a secret mock trial. They were officially rehabilitated in 1988. Solomon Mikhoels, the popular actor and director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater, was appointed the JAC chairman. The JAC's newspaper in Yiddish language was called Einigkeit The JAC broadcast pro-Soviet propaganda to foreign audiences, assuring them of the absence of anti-Semitism in the USSR. In 1943, Mikhoels and Itzik Feffer, the first official representatives of the Soviet Jewry allowed to visit the West, embarked on a seven-month tour to the USA, Mexico, Canada and Britain to drum up their support. In the US, they were welcomed by a National Reception Committee chaired by Albert Einstein and by B.Z. Goldberg, Sholem Aleichem's son-in-law, and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The largest pro-Soviet rally ever in the United States was held on July 8 at the Polo Grounds, where 50, 000 people listened to Mikhoels, Fefer, Fiorello La Guardia, Sholem Asch, and Chairman of World Jewish Congress Rabbi Stephen Wise. Among others, they met Chaim Weizmann, Charlie Chaplin, Marc Chagall, Paul Robeson and Lion Feuchtwanger. In addition to the funds for the Russian war effort US$16 million raised in the US, $15 million in England, $1 million in Mexico, $750, 000 in the British Mandate of Palestine other help was also contributed: machinery, medical equipment, medicine, ambulances, clothes. On July 16, 1943, Pravda reported: "Mikhoels and Feffer received a message from Chicago that a special conference of the Joint initiated a campaign to finance a thousand ambulances for the needs of the Red Army." The visit also evoked the American public to the necessity of entering the European war. The official response to an inquiry by JAC about the participation of the Jewish soldiers in the war (1.8% of the total number). Some accuse Jews of the lack of patriotism and of hiding from the military service. Towards the end and immediately after the war, the JAC became involved in documenting the Holocaust. This ran contrary to the official Soviet policy to present it as atrocities against all Soviet citizens, not acknowledging the specific genocide of the Jews. Some of the committee members were vocal supporters of the State of Israel, established in 1948, something that Stalin supported very briefly. Their international contacts especially to the USA at the outset of the Cold War, would eventually make them vulnerable to charges that they had become politically incorrect. The contacts with American Jewish organizations resulted in the plan to publish the Black Book simultaneously in the US and the Soviet Union, documenting the Holocaust and participation of Jews in the resistance movement. The Black Book was indeed published in New York City in 1946, but no Russian edition appeared. The typeface galleys were broken up in 1948, when the political situation of Soviet Jewry deteriorated. In January 1948, Mikhoels was killed in Minsk by the Soviet secret police agents who staged the murder as a car accident. The members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were arrested. They were charged with disloyalty, bourgeois nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and planning to set up a Jewish republic in Crimea to serve US interest.

Hardcover. [6], 201, [1] p. Here is a book in a magical category of one, a truly outstanding, resonant and original work, in a bold and daring new form, which breaks the mould of storytelling. It tells an intimate, everyday story of grief, love, attachment and loss through the voices of a fabulous range of characters-in some ways it recalls Under Milk Wood. Nadia Danon is dead, of cancer. Her widower, Albert, an accountant (who bears an odd resemblance to Amos), is trying to put his life back together. Her son has gone off to lose or find himself in Tibet. The son's girlfriend, a filmmaker, is back in Israel, making friendly, daughterly overtures to Albert-his response is less platonic. Meanwhile she has another lover and a rather repellent film producer also lusts after her. There are other wonderful characters. Theirs are the voices and the stories. It is beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, sexy, poetic, full of echoes and allusions, and yet with an astonishing immediacy and contemporaneity., and pure joy to read. The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, the book by which he would like to be remembered. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's enticing young girlfriend, who in turn sleeps with her boyfriend's close friend. The author himself receives phone calls from his characters, criticizing the way he portrays them in his novel. In this human profusion there is chaos and order, love and eroticism, loyalty and betrayal, and ultimately an extraordinary energy. "I wrote this book with everything I have. Language, music, structure--everything that I have.This is the closest book I've written. Close to me, close to what I always wanted.I went as far as I could."--Amos Oz From Wikipedia: "Amos Oz, (born May 4, 1939, birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate and major cultural voice of a two-state solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Oz's work has been published in some 41 languages, including Arabic in 35 countries. He has received many honours and awards, among them the Legion of Honour of France, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Israel Prize. In 2007, a selection from the Chinese translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness was the first work of modern Hebrew literature to appear in an official Chinese textbook.Oz was born in Jerusalem, where he grew up at No. 18 Amos Street in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood. Roughly half of his fiction is set within a mile of his boyhood home. His parents, Yehuda Arieh Klausner and Fania Mussman, were Zionist immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father studied history and literature in Wilno, Lithuania, and after immigrating, worked as a librarian and writer. His maternal grandfather had owned a mill in Rovno, Poland, but moved with the family to Haifa in 1934. Many of Klausner's family members were right-wing Revisionist Zionists. His great uncle Joseph Klausner was the Herut party candidate for the presidency against Chaim Weizmann and was chair of the Hebrew literature department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He and his family were distant from religion, disdaining what they perceived to be its irrationality. Yet he attended the community religious school Tachkemoni as the alternative was the socialist school affiliated with the labour movement, to which his family was decidedly opposed in their political values. The noted poet Zelda was one of his teachers. After Tachkemoni he attended Gymnasia Rehavia. His mother, who had suffered from depression, committed suicide when he was 12, repercussions of which he would explore in his memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness. Soon after, at the age of 15, he became a Labor Zionist, left home, and joined kibbutz Hulda. There he was adopted by the Huldai family.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Tom Keller (photograph of the author on rear of DJ (illustrator). Second Printing [stated]. 671, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has slight wear, soiling and sticker residue at bar code. Slightly cockes and front hing somewhat sprung. Signed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Some edge soiling. From a distinguished statesman, diplomat, scholar, and bestselling author comes an intimate portrait of the Israeli history he both witnessed and helped to forge. Eban was educated at Cambridge University. He began his governmental career in 1948 as United Nations representative for the provisional government of Israel, and became permanent representative in 1949. From 1950 to 1959 he served concurrently as the Israeli ambassador to the United States. In Israel, Eban has held many cabinet positions, including that of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the Knesset for decades. This is a passionate account of Israel's first five decades, written by one of its founding fathers. It is both an objective and subjective assessment of those history-making years. It was also the subject of a five-part PBS series. This is a political and social history at the highest level, presented without fear or favor, a candid testament written at a time when Eban was not constrained by being in office or serving as a diplomat. Eban traces Israel through all the fluctuations of its fortunes to which he was a witness and a participant: from its embattled beginnings and first struggle for international recognition, through the successive wars and diplomatic crises, to the conflicts existing at the time this work was written.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. x, 326 pages Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear to edges. Signed copy sticker on front of DJ. Signed with sentiment by the author on the title page. Signature reads: Peace! Dave A. Andelman. Includes Acknowledgments, Prologue, Maps, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include Onward to Paris; Le Debut, Le Mistral, The State of the Jews, A Wicked Wind from the East; A Pair of Princes; All Aboard the Orient Express; Into the Balkan Soup; Greater Asian Insecurity, and Where Did They All Go? David A. Andelman (born October 6, 1944) is an American journalist, commentator and author. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Andelman was the editor of World Policy Journal from 2008 until 2015. Previously, he served as a Washington correspondent for CNBC, and as a reporter, correspondent and bureau chief for The New York Times in covering Southeast Asia from his base in Bangkok, Eastern Europe from his base in Belgrade, and New York. Following The New York Times, he served for seven years as Paris correspondent for CBS News. He is the author of A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, a look at how some of the world's current geopolitical problems can be traced to the Treaty of Versailles which ended World War I. He was also co-author of The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism, a book of memoirs and opinion with Alexandre de Marenches, a former head of French intelligence. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The author takes a fresh look at the Treaty of Versailles as the point of origin for many of today's most critical international issues. This revealing history exposes the powerful lessons that a six-month period in a long ago era has for us today. Andelman turns the spotlight on the many errors committed by the peacemakers that led to crises and bloodshed from Algeria to Kosovo and wars from Israel to Vietnam. The author's conclusion is ominous: Not only did the paternalism, ignorance, and self-serving approach of the Great Powers who sculpted the treaty lead to disastrous consequences that were predicted at the time, but current policies of the world's developed nations frequently repeat and reaffirm the same mistakes. The Peace conference in Paris at the end of World War I was the first and last moment of pure hope for peace in the history of world affairs. For more than half a century, it has been widely recognized that the Treaty of Versailles, founded on retribution against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, created the circumstances that led inevitably to World War II. Less acknowledged and understood is the treaty's profound impact on many other parts of the world-an impact that echoes to this day across Asia, the Balkans, and throughout the Middle East. In A Shattered Peace, veteran foreign correspondent David A. Andelman takes a fresh new look at the Treaty of Versailles as the point of origin for many of today's most critical international issues. This revealing history exposes the powerful lessons that a six-month period in a long ago era has for us today. Andelman turns the spotlight on the many errors committed by the peacemakers that directly led to crises and bloodshed from Algeria to Kosovo and wars from Israel to Vietnam. Focusing on the small nations and minor players at the negotiations, including figures such as Ho Chi Minh and Charles de Gaulle who would later become major names, he traces the outcome of the deliberations through the history of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. His conclusion is ominous: not only did the paternalism, ignorance, and self-serving approach of the Great Powers who sculpted the treaty lead to disastrous consequences that were predicted at the time, but current policies of the world's developed nations continue to repeat and reaffirm these same mistakes. Andelman also paints a vivid picture of the glittering and often chaotic social whirl that accompanied the negotiations. Elsa Maxwell threw her first party; young Franklin Delano Roosevelt flirted with Parisian widows to the humiliation of his wife, Eleanor; princesses and young gentlemen in formal attire danced gaily to the hot new sound of American jazz-all this as prime ministers Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George ogled huge maps, dividing up territories and cementing their nations' positions as leading world powers for decades to come. Complete with a new preface by Sir Harold Evans, a new introduction from the author, and a never-before-published chapter on establishing a global economy, as well as insightful quotations from the diaries and correspondence of participants and previously unpublished photographs of the proceedings and their surroundings, A Shattered Peace will change the way you think about twentieth-century history, its influence on current events, and where we should go from here.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Us Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp.256. Signed presentation from the translator: "To the Earl of Drogheda-with all good wishes and compliments. Julian Meltzer. Rehovoth. Israel. 1961." Translation from the Hebrew by Julian L. Meltzer. Original publisher's cloth binding in the colours of Israel: blue with slightly faded white lettering at spine. Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda (1910Ð1989) was a British peer. In 1946, he became Managing Director of The Financial Times and inherited his father's earldom in 1957. In Very good-minus. Slight fading. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 279 pages, illus., former owner's stamp on front endpaper and top edge. Inscribed by the author. An intimate memoir of more than forty-five years of Jewish social-welfare work. Here are first-hand observations about Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, and their relationships to Jewish affairs. Exceprts from an obituary posted on-line: "Maurrice Bisgyer, who as executive vice-president of B'nai B'rith for 27 years had helped direct the worldwide Jewish service organization during its era of greatest growth, died at the age of 75. Mr. Bisgyer was a pioneer in Jewish social service work beginning his 45-year career in 1919. He was one of a then handful of specialists that has since expanded into a large and widespread Jewish community "civil service." He became B'nai B'rith's chief administrative officer in 1937. David M. Blumberg, international president of B'nai B'rith, said that Mr. Bisgyer's career, "spanning the era of both Jewish cataclysm and triumph-the Holocaust and the rebirth of Jewish statehood-and the maturing of a native-born American Jewry, was a close-up seat to Jewish history in the making. He helped make much of that history too." Mr. Bisgyer's assignments took him to all parts of the world. He participated in meetings with many leaders of government and with Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI on Issues affecting the Jewish community. He was a member of the Ad Hoc Jewish delegation in 1945 at San Francisco where the United Nations Charter was prepared and ratified.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 544 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed on fep by author. Minor page discoloration from a newspaper clippping on pages 128/9. Dan Halperin Kurzman (27 March 1922, San Francisco - 12 December 2010, Manhattan), was an American journalist and writer of military history books. In the early 1950s, he worked in Europe and in Israel for American newspapers and news agencies and was then correspondent of the NBC News in Jerusalem. In 1960 he published his first political book, a biography of the Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. In the 1960s, Kurzman worked as a foreign policy correspondent for the Washington Post. In 1965 he received the George Polk Award for external reporting. After the end of the sixties, the Washington Post had left, he devoted himself to researching and writing Modern History, especially military history non-fiction. He is also a recipient of the Cornelius Ryan Award. David Ben Gurion was a man with a mission that burned in his heart from the time he was a young boy. He suffered danger and privation to pursue it. No risk was too great for him to suffer to achieve his goal. He emigrated from Poland to Israel when local Arabs had carte blanche for murder and destruction. He persevered to be instrumental in the founding and protection of the new state of Israel. He molded the new government, chose its leaders and helped to carve the nation into an international entity. His legacy lives in the vibrancy of its people, its government and its economy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. 23 cm, 214 pages. Illus., some wear to DJ. Signed by the author, and by Charles E. Smith (a noted real estate developer and philanthropist in the Washington, DC area). Robert St. John was a war correspondent during World War II, and was reporting from Israel at the time of its independence in 1948.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement was signed on January 3, 1919, by Emir Feisal (son of the King of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (later President of the World Zionist Organization) as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 settling disputes stemming from World War I. It was a short-lived agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. One or more of the Allies may have suggested that a representative of the Zionist Organization secure the agreement. The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement had called for an 'Arab State or a Confederation of Arab States'. .'under the suzerainty of an Arab chief.' The French and British also proposed 'an international administration, the form of which is to be decided upon after consultation with Russia, and subsequently in consultation with the other Allies and the representatives of the Shereef of Mecca .' 120 pp. Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Voice of Israel is a collection of Abba Eban s speeches before the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly, at universities and other venues between 1948 and 1968. Eban addresses Israel s position on security in the Middle East, the Arab refugee problem, Jerusalem and the Holy Places, freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal and the Straights of Tiran, border clashes, American-Israel relations and the Six-Day War. The Ambassador sounds a note of fierce and joyous pride in the achievements of Israel. The texts show Mr. Eban s equal facility with the majestic phrase, the mild word and the blunt rejoinder. It need not be insisted that Mr. Eban is the oratorical equal of the incomparable Sir Winston [Churchill]. Hal Lehrman, The New York Times For almost two generations, Abba Eban was Israel's voice its messenger to the high and mighty among the nations as well as to the Jewish people all over the world. Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940 s during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and conviction. With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II. As Ambassador to the United States and the UN, and later as Foreign Minister, he represented an Israel with which the world's liberal imagination could identify. Larger and more powerful nations were envious of so powerful a spokesman, and his speeches became textbook models for statesmen and diplomats in distant lands. His books which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy were a unique combination of enormous erudition and crystalline clarity. His scholarly training and rhetorical gifts supplemented each other in a rare fashion. Rarely has a small country been represented by a statesman of such world stature: only Thomas Masaryk and Jan Smuts come to mind to compare with him. He was a true patriot, in the old-fashioned sense of the word: proud of his people, but never ethno-centric; a man of the world, but deeply embedded in Jewish cultural heritage; focused on the plights and tribulations of the Jewish people, but never losing the universal horizon of mankind. In short, he was a modern Jew in the best sense of the word. Shlomo Avineri Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1957 Horizon Press FIRST Edition **SIGNED & INSCRIBED** on the half-title page. A VG+/VG_ copy with virtually no wear at all on the HB and small missing pieces affecting the lower right corner and upper left edge and top spine end of the unclipped DJ. Signed by Author(s). Book. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiv, 361, [7] p. Illustrations. Notes on Sources. Index. The author was a Senior Fellow and director of Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a long time foreign correspondent for the New York Times. He also served in the Department of State under Warren Cyrus Vance. Very good in fair dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Inscribed on fep. First edition. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing.

8°, paperback. 273 pp The book has a handwritten dedication by Harold M. Blumberg on its title page, dated Haifa Nov. 1, 1996. Enclosed is a mashine typed 6-page manuscript, where Harold M. Blumberg enrolls the story of his family. Also encluded a photocopy of a lenghty text written by Blumberg in a column "Letter from Jerusalem" titled Rabbi and the Reich. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Second printing [stated]. [8], 191, [1] pages., Notes. Index. Signed with comment on the title page: Best wishes from Abba Eban. Has chapters on A Credentials Ceremony; September 15, 1950; The Cold War Remembered; Dilemmas of Diplomats; The Perils of Analogy; Human Rights Seldom Win; The Intrusive Media; Where--If Not at the Summit?; Still Too Many Wars; The United Nations: No New Order. Eban concludes with thoughts about the quest for peace in the Middle East. In this wise and eloquent book, one of the world's preeminent senior statesmen presents his views on the challenges of diplomacy in the post Cold War era. Abba Eban draws on his years of experience and knowledge to offer an overview of diplomacy as practices in today's world. Interweaving historical data with personal reminiscences, Eban reviews the Cold War period and its end in 1989, praising the diplomatic restraint in the years that have followed; discusses the ethical confrontation between power an conscience in a range of international decisions and actions; and points out the difficulty of reconciling the promotion of human rights with respect for national sovereignty. Eban goes on to deplore the lack of privacy in international negotiations that is the result of an intrusive media, and shows that nuclear warfare is not a restraint. Instructive, erudite, and witty, Eban's tour through diplomatic history vividly demonstrates that the wisdom of the past can be immensely valuable as we seek to negotiate and maintain peace in the future. Derived from a Kirkus review: Eban obviously enjoyed himself during the Castle Lectures at Yale (collected here), as he ranged like a well-trained bull through a china shop of political correctness. Eban, for many years foreign minister of Israel and the author of many books, may not have much to say about the problems of the next century, but he has a sharp eye for the follies of the last, including summitry); the UN; the revisionist view that the Soviet threat during the Cold War was never a real one; Ostpolitik, which he thinks was a Soviet victory, equivalent to the recognition of its military victories; and the US's reluctance to accord diplomatic recognition to countries of which it disapproves. He is also tough on Israel, and in particular on the ``draconian punishments inflicted on the entire populations of the West Bank and Gaza'' in retaliation for the 1996 Jerusalem bombing. In all, or at least most, of these views he reflects the attitudes of professional diplomats, a group ``dominated by a sense of limitation proceeding from a somber view of human nature'' and pursuing ``relatively modest goals,'' but even here he has some sharp observations on the ``extraordinary record of strategic surprise'' in the last 60 years, a pattern of failure which may proceed from their training. As sharp, shrewd, and candid an assessment of at least the current state of international relations as we are likely to get. Abba Solomon Meir Eban (Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 - 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar. During his career, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He was the second ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. He was also Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science. At the outbreak of World War II, he worked for Chaim Weizmann at the World Zionist Organization in London from December 1939. He served in the British Army in Egypt and Mandate Palestine, becoming an intelligence officer in Jerusalem. Eban left the United States in 1959 and returned to Israel, where he was elected to the Knesset as a member of Mapai. He served under David Ben-Gurion as Minister of Education and Culture from 1960 to 1963, then as deputy to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol until 1966. From 1966 to 1974, Eban served as Israel's foreign minister. He defended the country's reputation after the Six-Day War by asserting, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, that Israel acted in response to an imminent threat: "So on the fateful morning of 5 June, when Egyptian forces moved by air and land against Israel's western coast and southern territory, our country's choice was plain". He played an important part in the shaping of UN Security Council Resolution 242 in 1967, as well as Resolution 338 in 1973. His comment that Arabs "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" (i.e., for peace), made after the Geneva peace talks in December 1973, is often quoted.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo. A wonderful piece from the early days of the Israeli state with exceptional provenance, signed by Israeli ambassador to the United States, Abba Eban on a laid-in card. "One of the greatest stories of faith moving mountains-and watering deserts-in the whole history of mankind." - Lewis Gannett, N.Y. Herald Tribune. Laid in is a presentation card from Abba Eban, the influential Ambassador of Israel to the United States, to American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Bernstein Family Foundation, Leo Bernstein, "in recognition of devoted leadership on behalf of Israel and Jews throughout the world." Black cloth. Gilt title on spine. Tight square binding. Clean interior. Jacket with mild rubbing and edgewear. A handsome copy of the autobiography of Weizmann who, for more than thirty years, was the undisputed leader in the world of Zionism.

Brossura. Condition: buone. Il lotto comprende: - Bonifazi (Roma): Scelti libri di Decio Zanitter insieme a copiosa raccola di Trattati di Musica vocale e strumentale (29/11/1869, mancanza alla coperta). - Luzzietti (Roma): Musica (28/12/1903, n°223). - Liepmannssohn (Berlin): Katalog einer Autographen-Sammlung bestehend aus wertvollen Musick Manuskripten und Musik Briefen aus den Nachlässen von Julius Stockhause und Wilhelm Taubert und des Musikverlegers Maurice Schlesinger aus Paris, 1798-1871 (4/11/1907, n°37); Musiker ? Autographen aus der Sammlung Wilhelm Heyer in Köln (quattro volumi, 1926-1928, pg.128, 116, 76, 68; con 43 tavole complessive fuori testo); Musiker ? Autographen (16/11/1928, n°52). - Sotheby?s (London): Books, Drawings, Print and Music relating to the ballet and Dancing, properties of M. Rambert, Diaghilev Ballets Foundation, W.B.Morris, E.G.Haldane, J.Burt (16/7/1968)*; The Jack Cole Collection of Books and Pictures on the Dance, the Property of Mr. John David Gray (16/7/1979 ); Printed Books, Manuscript and Music (27/5/1986, pg.120); Music, Continental Books and Manuscripts, Science and Medecine (21/5/1987, pg.312); Music, Continental Manuscripts and Printed Books, Science and Medecine (26/11/1987, pg.208); Fine Printed and Manuscript Music (22/11/1989, pg.184); Continental Printed Books, Manuscripts and Music (3/12/1992, pg.352); Continental Printed Books, Manuscripts and Music (1/12/1993, pg.240; Continental Manuscripts and Music (26/5/1994, pg.232); Fine Printed and Manuscript Music (6/12/1996, 2 volumi, pg.150, 16); Fine Music and Continental Manuscripts, including Chaim Weizmann?s unpublished letters to Sophia Getzova (15/5/1997, pg.212); Fine Printed and Manuscript Music (5/12/1997, 2 volumi, pg.126, 12); Music, including the Paul Wittgenstein Archive (22/5/2003, pg.184); Music (20/5/2005, pg.184). - Sotheby?s (Sussex): "Paintings, Furniture, Cameras, Instruments, Mechanical Music, Silver, Jewellery, Oriental Ceramics" (3/4/1989). - Christie?s (London): Valuable Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and Music Manuscripts (27/3/1985, pg.100); Valuable Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and Music Manuscripts (16/10/1985, pg.112); "Important Musical Instruments" (12/11/1985); Valuable Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and Music Manuscripts (3/12/1986, pg.100); ?Important Musical Instruments including the Van Zuylen Collection of early Instruments" (16/3/1988). - Pitti (Firenze): Libri d?arte e musica, Manoscritti musicali, Pagine miniate, Fotografie (15/6/1994). - Delorme & Collin du Bocage (Paris): Autographes musicaux (14/11/2008). - Bolaffi (Milano): Arturo Toscanini (19/12/2012). Bolaffi (Torino): "Arredi, dipinti e oggetti d'arte; Cimeli storici della famiglia di Niccolò Paganini" (25/9/2014). Mathias & Oger - Blanchet (Paris): Important Manuscripts Musicaux, etc. (19/4/2019) . Prezzi a richiesta per singoli Cataloghi. il lotto (29 cataloghi). 0 gr.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition/Limited. This is a signed limited edition of Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann. This is volume one only. Weizmann has signed on the limitation page which reads "Of the first edition of "Trial and Error", five hundred copies have been printed on special paper, in two volumes, boxed. Each copy is numbered and signed by the author. This copy is number 383 (handwritten) Chaim Weizmann (his signature). The book published in 1949 by Harper & Brothers: New York is in very good condition with dust jacket affixed to free front end paper and a stain on the inside front cover. There is no jacket. 264 pages. This is volume one only. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: vg- to vg. First edition. Folio. 12 unnumbered plates. Blue-green textured string-tied paper wrapper, with illustration and title in brown on the front cover. Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist in pen on at the top of the interior front wrapper by the artist. This work is a very scarce collection of 12 celebrity caricatures, by noted British cartoonist Mark Wayner (1888-1980). Figures depicted are American Harmonica player Larry Adler, violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler, English journalist Hannen Swaffer, English humorist and novelist A. P. Herbert, New Zealand cartoonist David Low, British-American artist Sir Jacob Epstein, First President of Israel Chaim Weizmann, British politician George Lansbury, American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and British artist Sir William Rothenstein. All of these large images, captioned below and are finely printed in brown lithographs. There is no publication dated printed, but the work is known to have been published circa 1940. Quite scarce with only a few institutional holdings worldwide (only 1 on OCLC). Wrappers with minor age toning, rubbing and creasing to extremities. Sporadic minor foxing to the plates, mostly in the margins, with most images quite clean overall. Wrappers in very good, interior in very good- condition overall. Wrappers protected in modern mylar. This work is one of two known collections of the artist's work to be printed. The preeeding collection, titled "Celebrities in Caricature" was published in 1931. Alternate title: Celebrities Today in Caricature.

CHAIM WEIZMANN (1874-1952). Weizmann was the first President of Israel. PS. 6" x 8.25". N.d. N.p. A photograph signed "All good wishes C Weizmann" as President of Israel. Weizmann signed the black-and-white photograph on the bottom margin; the image is attached to a thicker stock paper on which he autographed. His shaky handwriting likely dates the signature towards the end of his life. In fine condition, with an Israeli governmental stamp on the verso. Accompanied by a "State of Israel" envelope that may have originally contained the photograph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a bound copy containing original material from 1948-1949 edited and published by William Zukerman and the Jewish World News Service out of New York City. With a gold-embossed spine stating "JEWISH NEWS LETTERS - VOL. II NO. 1 [through] VOL. III No. 15 [should state 16] - JAN. 7, 1949 [through] DEC. 1949]," the volume contains the following documents: 1) an early issue, unnumbered, of the "Jewish Newsletter" dated June 4, 1948 (five pages) published three weeks after Israel's Declaration of Independence (May 14) and subsequent invasion (May 15) by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria; 2) 44 different, original issues from 1949 of the "Jewish Newsletter" (comprising Volumes II and III, missing only two issues); 3) six special news releases published in 1949, issued separately from the "Jewish Newsletter"; and 4) a typed and signed letter dated October 1, 1949 from William Zukerman to Rabbi Dr. Elmer Berger, Executive Director of the American Council for Judaism. *ONE* - Jewish Newsletter dated June 4, 1948 containing five pages with blank verso (including "A Letter from Israel," which begins, "Your letter arrived when a band of Arabs attacked our 'Kwutza.' Throughout the week we fought day and night. On our side there were dead and wounded, and on the Arab side there were 150 casualties"); *TWO* - Volumes II and III containing 44 issues of the "Jewish Newsletter" (variously subtitled) with earlier issues printed on one side (with blank verso) and later issues printed on both sides; 4 printed pages each, with one issue 5 pages, as follows (missing only two issues): Vol. II - No. 1 (January 7, 1949), 2, [missing 3], 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, [missing 12], 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (July 1, 1949); four subsequent issues numbered Vol. III No. 1 (July 8), 2 (July 15), 3 (July 22), 4 (July 29), and one un-numbered issue (August 26, 1949) printed on Jewish World News Service stationery - note that Vol. III No. 1 begins again in September with new content, as follows: Vol. III - No. 1 (Sept. 9), 2 (Sept. 16), 3 (Sept. 23), 4 (Sept. 30), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 [Nov. 11, mis-numbered 8], 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 [Dec. 23, 1949 mis-numbered 15]; *THREE* - six news releases printed on "Jewish World News Service" stationery: two "Late News" (April 25, 1949, three pages; May 2, 1949, two pages); three "News from Around the Jewish World" (July 1, 1949, two pages; July 15, 1949, two pages; October 14, 1949, two pages, #102 - numbering most likely includes issues to date of the "Jewish Newsletter"); and "Jewish News Around the World" (November 4, 1949, one page, #105 - numbering most likely includes issues to date of "The Jewish Newsletter"); *FOUR* - typed and signed one-page letter dated October 1, 1949 from William Zukerman (signed in pen "Wm Zukerman") on Jewish Newsletter stationery to Rabbi Dr. Elmer Berger, Executive Director of the American Council for Judaism (ACJ) on various topics. With hundreds of topical headlines, the JEWISH NEWSLETTER contains news and comments about the new State of Israel, Jews in the diaspora, world opinion, controversies, personalities, and organizations. Specific topics include inter-marriage, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Zionist Organization of America, the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's First National Election, theocracy in Israel, anti-semitism, Israel's political parties, the United Palestine Appeal, the Jewish press, the United Jewish Appeal, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Count Folke Bernadotte, Arab refugees, Zionism, Nationalism, immigration, the United Nations, much much more. Written to the front cover of six issues are one or more names: "Goldberg," "Sidney Wallach," and "Dr. [Elmer] Berger.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A fine Two volume set. No dustjacket and no slipcase. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. This is copy number 129 of 500 copies. The two volumes are square and tight and in fine condition. Lables to spine are perfect. No writing or other noticable imperfections. A very nice, clean and bright set. = We ship all books with Delivery Confirmation or insured. = We have been selling Used Books for over 28 years.

First edition of the first president of Israel's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Weizmann. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Pam Affectionately Chaim Wiezmann." Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. "Endowed with diplomatic gifts of the first order," Weizmann, a Russian-born chemist, was perhaps the most important figure in the history of Zionism (DNB). Weizmann was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel. Weizmann was also a biochemist who developed the acetoneâ "butanolâ "ethanol fermentation process, which produces acetone through bacterial fermentation. His acetone production method was of great importance for the British war industry during World War I. He founded the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and was instrumental in the establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

630 x 485 mm. (24 7/8 x 19 1/8"). [28] leaves.Forward by Rabbi Avraham Soltes. Light blue cloth portfolio, upper cover with gilt titling, in a matching clamshell box with gilt titling on cover and spine. WITH 11 COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, titled, numbered, and SIGNED BY CHAIM GROSS. Text printed in red and black. â In mint condition. In this jubilant exploration of faith and community, prominent Jewish artist and émigré Chaim Gross (1902-91) presents a joyful mix of animated figures, bright colors, and decorative lettering in a series of lithographs illustrating the 10 holiest days of the Jewish calendar. Displaced from his small village in the Carpathian Mountains during the First World War, Gross in 1921 immigrated to America, where he studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He specialized in sculpture and printmaking, employing the method of direct carving he helped pioneer and for which he would predominantly be known. Following the Second World War, Gross became increasingly interested in Jewish subjects, and travelled to Israel on several occasions to complete a sculpture of its first president, Chaim Weizmann, as well as to make watercolor sketches of the countryside. The 11 lithographs in the present series were also conceived as watercolors, lending a dream-like quality to scenes heavy with nostalgia, reverence, and warmth. In the foreword to the present work, Rabbi Soltes explains that "In these lithographs, Gross recaptures the color of his childhood and his skill makes them come alive for those who have shared the experience. For those to whom this vanished world is mere history, Gross offers an emotional insight as well as aesthetic pleasure.". No. 162 OF 200 COPIES (from a total edition of 250 copies, of which 10 were hors commerce).

Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Chaim Weizmann, this is number 415. Octavo, 2 volumes, frontispiece of Weizmann in volume one. Near fine in near fine dust jackets, owner name to the front free endpaper of volume one. Uncommon in the original dust jackets. "Endowed with diplomatic gifts of the first order," Weizmann, a Russian-born chemist, was perhaps the most important figure in the history of Zionism (DNB). Weizmann was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel. Weizmann was also a biochemist who developed the acetoneâ "butanolâ "ethanol fermentation process, which produces acetone through bacterial fermentation. His acetone production method was of great importance for the British war industry during World War I. He founded the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and was instrumental in the establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

174:232 mm. Additionally signed by his wife Vera and inscribed to Yigat Kimchi, showing Chaim and Vera Weizmann at a degree ceremony. - Mat slightly spotted and creased.